Vehicle-spring



(NOModel.) w. H. TARBELL.

VEHIGLE SPRING. 110.274.098.

Pat6ntedMar. 13, 1883.

' N. IfETERS. Pbolo lilhogmphen w.1

UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. TARBELL, OF LANSINGBURG, NEW YORK.

VEHICLE-SPRING.

SPEOIFIOA'JJION foirming part cf Letters Patent N0. 274,o9s, dated March13,- 1883.

Application filed August 19.1882. (N0 model.)

T0 all whom et may concern:

Be it known that I, W H. TARBELL, ot' Lwnsingburg, in the county ofRensselaer am State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Vehicle-Springs; nnd I do hereby declare that thef0llowingis a full, elear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had 130 tl e aecompanying drnwings, and to the letters 0freference marked thereon,which forn1 part of this specifieation,

in which Figure 1 is a side elevation; Fig. 2, a perspective showing therelievingmoller and its attaclnnents; Fig.3, a perspeetive illustratin gthe method of attaehing the spring t0 the buckboard.

This inventioix relates t0 an improved. spri'n g attaehmentforbuekboardwagons; and the nature of my invention c0nsists in a novelmode 0f mounting semi-elliptie springs on a buckboard, whereby the freutende of3the springs are allowecl afree rolling endwise play uponwearing-plates which are secured to the buckboard, substantially as willbe hereinatter explained and illustrated.

In the annexed drawings, A designates a.

1 wagen box er body, which may be made in any. suitable manner, andwhieh is secured rigidly upon two longitudinal side spiings, B, only oneof which is shown in the dra.wingS,

I'or the reason that they are the well-known Fig. l,and theupturnedportion ofthe plate0- is slotted longitudinally t0 form ea rs, betweenwhich the rear end or eye, a, of spring Bis applied, thereby sustainingthis end 0f the spring against lateral displacement and stra,in. The eyea, at the frontend of the spring B, is slotted Ion gitudinall y to formatw0 ea rs, between which is applied an anti-friction Wheelc, tl1at isheld in its place by a transversebolt, d, around which the said wheel isfree t0 turn, The'front end 0f the spring is supported by its wheel cupon a wearing-plate, E, which is rigidly seeured npon the buckboard D,and from which rises a looped guide, F, between the vertical portions ofwhieh the freut part 0f the spring B is free to play longitudinally.Tl1is guide prevents undue lateral play of the spring, and prevents thefront end of the spring fron1 being displaced vertically fron1 itsposition, hat does not restrain its endwise play er motion. It isobvious tl1at the wearing-plate may be on theend ot' the spring, and theroller attached to the buckboard or w the pla-te thereon.

Having thus fully deseribed myinvention, what I claim es new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the body A, of the springs B, pivotedet their rearends t0 plates secured to a buckboard, the anti-friction rollers on thefront ends 0f the springs, the bearing-plates for said rollers, securedt0 the buckboard, and the guides F for the freut ends of the springs,all snbstantially in the manner am forthe purposes described.

In testimony Chat I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signatnrein presence of two

